Biography

Miranda Kwok is an award-winning writer best known as the Showrunner, Creator and Executive Producer of the U.S. television series adaptation "The Cleaning Lady" for which she won the 2023 Gracie Award for Scripted TV Drama Writing and the 2024 Astra Award for Best Writing in a Drama Series. Produced by Warner Bros. and FOX Entertainment, Kwok developed "The Cleaning Lady" based on the original Argentine series "La Chica Que Limpia" which is airing all four seasons on HBO Max. The series won the 2022 Women’s Image Network Award for Outstanding Drama Series and the 2023 CAPE Radiance Best in TV or Film Award.

Previously, Kwok served as a Writer/Supervising Producer for "The 100" on the CW Network, working on the Warner Bros. series for four years from Season 4 to Season 7.

Kwok is a member of the Television Academy, an alum of the WGA Showrunner Training Program, the WGA Writer Access Project, the CBS Writers Mentoring Program, Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts, and Film Independent's Project: Involve, through which she earned a full tuition scholarship at The Los Angeles Film School for their Feature Development Program. With her first screenplay "Song of Silence," Kwok won the Grand Prize in the Slamdance Screenplay Competition. With her first TV spec script, Kwok landed her first staff writer position on "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" on the Starz Network.

Kwok also served as a writer and story consultant on several theme park attractions and immersive experiences, including Wanda Movie Park's 4D Film "Streets of Fury" and 5D Film "Ultimate Energy" which was produced by Industrial Light and Magic.

Kwok established her foundation in advocacy and storytelling while completing her Honors Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Toronto and volunteering as a counselor at a women’s shelter and crisis center. Kwok is also a motorcyclist, black belt martial artist, an unofficial 76th-generation descendant of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, and was noted in Variety's 2022 TV Producers Impact List.
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